viser

Danish

Noun

viser c (singular definite viseren, plural indefinite visere)

1. pointer, hand

Inflection

Declension of viser

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	viser	viseren	visere	viserne
genitive	visers	viserens	viseres	visernes

Noun

viser c

1. indefinite plural of vise

Verb

viser

1. present of vise

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.ze/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French viser, from Old French viser, from Late Latin vīsāre, from Latin vīsere, intensive of videō. Compare voir.

Verb

viser

1. to aim, to target

   une loi qui vise à améliorer la situation

   a law which aims to improve the situation

   des mesures visant à réduire la fréquence et la gravité des accidents de la route

   measures aiming to reduce the frequency and gravity of road accidents

   • 2009 September 5, “Pakistan : 43 militants islamiques tués”, in Le Figaro‎^[1]:

     L’offensive pakistanaise, appuyée par des hélicoptères et de l’artillerie, visait un quartier-général du Lashkar-e-Islam (Armée de l’Islam) dans la vallée de Tirrah, a précisé à l’AFP un responsable de sécurité à Peshawar.

     A security officer at Peshawar specified to AFP that the Pakistani offensive, supported by helicopters and artillery, targeted a Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam) headquarters in the Tirrah Valley.

2. (colloquial) to watch, to stare

   Synonym: regarder

Conjugation

Conjugation of viser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	viser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	visant /vi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		visé /vi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise /viz/	vises /viz/	vise /viz/	visons /vi.zɔ̃/	visez /vi.ze/	visent /viz/
	imperfect	visais /vi.zɛ/	visais /vi.zɛ/	visait /vi.zɛ/	visions /vi.zjɔ̃/	visiez /vi.zje/	visaient /vi.zɛ/
	past historic2	visai /vi.ze/	visas /vi.za/	visa /vi.za/	visâmes /vi.zam/	visâtes /vi.zat/	visèrent /vi.zɛʁ/
	future	viserai /viz.ʁe/	viseras /viz.ʁa/	visera /viz.ʁa/	viserons /viz.ʁɔ̃/	viserez /viz.ʁe/	viseront /viz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	viserais /viz.ʁɛ/	viserais /viz.ʁɛ/	viserait /viz.ʁɛ/	viserions /vi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	viseriez /vi.zə.ʁje/	viseraient /viz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise /viz/	vises /viz/	vise /viz/	visions /vi.zjɔ̃/	visiez /vi.zje/	visent /viz/
	imperfect2	visasse /vi.zas/	visasses /vi.zas/	visât /vi.za/	visassions /vi.za.sjɔ̃/	visassiez /vi.za.sje/	visassent /vi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vise /viz/	—	visons /vi.zɔ̃/	visez /vi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• aviser
• réviser
• reviser
• susvisé
• visable
• visée
• visette
• viseur
• vision

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: visar

Etymology 2

From visa +‎ -er.

Verb

viser

2. to issue with a visa

Conjugation

Conjugation of viser (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	viser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	visant /vi.zɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		visé /vi.ze/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise /viz/	vises /viz/	vise /viz/	visons /vi.zɔ̃/	visez /vi.ze/	visent /viz/
	imperfect	visais /vi.zɛ/	visais /vi.zɛ/	visait /vi.zɛ/	visions /vi.zjɔ̃/	visiez /vi.zje/	visaient /vi.zɛ/
	past historic2	visai /vi.ze/	visas /vi.za/	visa /vi.za/	visâmes /vi.zam/	visâtes /vi.zat/	visèrent /vi.zɛʁ/
	future	viserai /viz.ʁe/	viseras /viz.ʁa/	visera /viz.ʁa/	viserons /viz.ʁɔ̃/	viserez /viz.ʁe/	viseront /viz.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	viserais /viz.ʁɛ/	viserais /viz.ʁɛ/	viserait /viz.ʁɛ/	viserions /vi.zə.ʁjɔ̃/	viseriez /vi.zə.ʁje/	viseraient /viz.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise /viz/	vises /viz/	vise /viz/	visions /vi.zjɔ̃/	visiez /vi.zje/	visent /viz/
	imperfect2	visasse /vi.zas/	visasses /vi.zas/	visât /vi.za/	visassions /vi.za.sjɔ̃/	visassiez /vi.za.sje/	visassent /vi.zas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vise /viz/	—	visons /vi.zɔ̃/	visez /vi.ze/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “viser”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• ivres, revis, rives, rivés, servi, sévir, vires, virés

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French viser, from Vulgar Latin *visāre, from Latin visere, present active infinitive of visō, intensive of videō.

Verb

viser

1. to aim at, to target

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Conjugation of viser

infinitive	simple	viser
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle1 or gerund2	simple	visant
	compound	present participle or gerund of avoir + past participle
past participle		visé
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ie (i’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ilz, elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise	vises	vise	visons	visez	visent
	imperfect	visois, visoys	visois, visoys	visoit, visoyt	visions, visyons	visiez, visyez	visoient, visoyent
	past historic	visa	visas	visa	visasmes	visastes	viserent
	future	viserai, viseray	viseras	visera	viserons	viserez	viseront
	conditional	viserois, viseroys	viserois, viseroys	viseroit, viseroyt	viserions, viseryons	viseriez, viseryez	viseroient, viseroyent
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que ie (i’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ilz, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	vise	vises	vise	visons	visez	visent
	imperfect	visasse	visasses	visast	visassions	visassiez	visassent
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	vise	—	visons	visez	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The present participle was variable in gender and number until the 17th century (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], Une esthétique nouvelle: Honoré d'Urfé, correcteur de l'Astrée, p. 179). The French Academy would eventually declare it not to be declined in 1679.
2 The gerund was held to be invariable by grammarians of the early 17th century, and was usable with preposition en, as in Modern French, although the preposition was not mandatory (Anne Sancier-Château [1995], op. cit., p. 180).

Descendants

• French: viser

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

viser m or f

1. indefinite plural of vise

Etymology 2

Derived from the verb vise.

Noun

viser m (definite singular viseren, indefinite plural visere, definite plural viserne)

1. a hand (on a clock or watch)

Derived terms

• sekundviser

See also

• visar (Nynorsk)

Etymology 3

Verb

viser

1. present tense of vise

References

• “viser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “viser” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• Visor, visor, visur (weak noun, obsolete and archaic spellings)
• Viser, visir (strong noun, obsolete spellings, both feminine)
  • vis (neuter plural)
  • visar (masculine plural)

Noun

viser f

1. (weak) indefinite plural of vise
2. (strong) indefinite plural feminine of vis

Verb

viser

1. present of visa

Anagrams

• Versi, rives, siver, versi

Old French

Alternative forms

• visiere (alternative form or synonym)

Noun

viser oblique singular, m (oblique plural visers, nominative singular visers, nominative plural viser)

1. (Anglo-Norman) visor

References

• viser on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub